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Business elites and urban development : case studies and critical perspectives
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Business elites and urban development : case studies and critical perspectives

Author: Scott Cummings
Publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1988.
Series: SUNY series on urban public policy.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Genre/Form: Case studies
Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Scott Cummings
ISBN: 0887065775 9780887065774 0887065783 9780887065781
OCLC Number: 15316286
Notes: Cover title: Business elites & urban development.
Description: xi, 395 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction. Private enterprise and public policy : business hegemony in the metropolis / Scott Cummings --
Part 1. Business elites and the growth agenda. Strategies and constraints of growth elites / Harvey Molotch --
The role of the performing arts in urban competition and growth / J. Allen Whitt --
Public investment in private businesses : the professional sports mania / Mark S. Rosentraub --
Public policy and private benefits : the case of industrial revenue bonds / Thomas S. Moore and Gregory D. Squires --
Part 2. Business elites and local government. Urban populism, uneven development, and the space for reform / Todd Swanstrom --
Municipal code enforcement and urban development : private decisions and public policy in an American city / Scott Cummings and Edmond Snider --
Chicago's North Loop redevelopment project : a growth machine on hold / Larry Bennett ... [et al.] --
Part 3. The social costs of urban growth and decline. Tallying the social costs of urban growth under capitalism : the case of Houston / Joe R. Feagin --
Downriver : deindustrialization in southwest Detroit / Richard Child Hill and Michael Indergaard --
Disinvestment and economic decline in northeastern Pennsylvania : the failures of a local business elite's growth agenda / Thomas J. Keil --
Part 4. Downtown prosperity and neighborhood poverty. Urban democracy and the power of corporate capital : struggles over downtown growth and neighborhood stagnation in Hartford, Connecticut / Kenneth J. Neubeck and Richard E. Ratcliff --
Fiscal and developmental crises in black suburbs / John R. Logan --
The limits to neighborhood power : progressive politics and local control in Santa Monica / David S. Daykin.
Series Title: SUNY series on urban public policy.
Other Titles: Business elites & urban development.
Responsibility: edited by Scott Cummings.

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